Board Member Profile

Terence McFarland (BFA Film/Video '00, MFA Interschool '03), President

Terence McFarland is CEO of LA Stage Alliance, greater Los Angeles’ largest performing arts service organization, dedicated to building awareness, appreciation and support for the performing arts in Greater Los Angeles.

McFarland holds both an MFA and BFA from California Institute of the Arts, an Associates Degree from the Fashion Institute of Technology and certificates from both Stanford Graduate School of Business Executive Program for Non-Profit Leaders -- Arts and Polimoda in Florence, Italy. He is a director, producer and performer having presented work in many international film festivals and performed or directed throughout Los Angeles. Prior to living in Los Angeles, he worked in New York in the fashion industry with, among others: Details magazine, Interview magazine, Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren, Geoffrey Beene and Jeffrey Kalinsky.

McFarland currently serves on the boards of Arts for LA, California Arts Advocates, Edgefest: The Edge of the World Theater Festival and the California Institute of the Arts Alumni Association and was recently named a Trustee by City Councilmember Jose Huizar of the Bringing Back Broadway Initiative – a $40 million public private partnership to revitalize the historic Broadway District of Downtown Los Angeles and is a member of the class of 2008 Leadership L.A. program. McFarland has served as the lead consultant on the Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles Arts retention projects in Hollywood and North Hollywood and as a grants panelist for Ventura Arts Council and the Los Angeles County Arts Commission.

McFarland has presented or facilitated workshops on Corporate Sponsorship, Corporate Volunteerism, Arts Marketing and Technology, Creativity and Workforce Development, Performing Arts Touring in partnership with the Western Arts Alliance, New Play Development in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and Arena Stage and led sessions for arts journalism fellows for both the NEA/USC Arts Journalism fellowship program and the Los Angeles Sister Cities Arts Journalism Fellowship of LA, Inc. the Los Angeles Visitors and Convention Bureau.